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ME Slowdown
Name: Ralph Date: July 18, 2002 at 13:04:31 Pacific
Comment:
I have been running a ME system for about an year. All of a suddent it has slowed down to a standstill. Defrag does not even startup. Any ideas?
Name: georges Date: July 18, 2002 at 13:46:50 Pacific
Reply:
First look for virus (especially Klez), online scans : http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp http://security2.norton.com/ssc/home.asp? a special AntiKlez tool: AntiKlez,it's the 5th in the site : http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/security/fwavspecial.shtml Scan also with Ad-AWARE
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